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Sunetra Gupta

Sunetra Gupta

सुनेत्रा गुप्ता

Sunetra Gupta is an Indian-born British infectious disease epidemiologist and a professor of theoretical epidemiology at the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford. She has performed research on the transmission dynamics of various infectious diseases, including malaria, influenza and COVID-19, and has received the Scientific Medal of the Zoological Society of London and the Rosalind Franklin Award of the Royal Society.

BORN

15 March 1965

HONOUR

Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, 2024

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Key facts

Born
15 March 1965, Kolkata
State of birth
Kolkata, West Bengal
Sector
Literature & writing
Profession
Indian novelist and epidemiologist
Gender
Female

Biography

Sunetra Gupta is an Indian-born British infectious disease epidemiologist and a professor of theoretical epidemiology at the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford. She has performed research on the transmission dynamics of various infectious diseases, including malaria, influenza and COVID-19, and has received the Scientific Medal of the Zoological Society of London and the Rosalind Franklin Award of the Royal Society. She is a member of the scientific advisory board of Collateral Global, an organisation which examines the global impact of COVID-19 restrictions.

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Timeline

  1. 1965Born in Kolkata
  2. 1996Awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award
  3. 2007Awarded the ZSL Scientific Medal
  4. 2009Awarded the Rosalind Franklin Award
  5. 2024Awarded the Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
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